Snow chopper made from junk--in Antarctica

Bob Sawicki, standing, and Toby Weisser show off their snowmobile chopper. The only thing more geeky would be to build it out of Legos.
National Science Foundation/Peter Rejcek

Let's say you're stationed in Antarctica at the McMurdo Station research center. And let's say your job is to help maintain the fleet of snowmobiles the U.S. uses down there. And let's say your former job skilled you in parts fabrication.

It was built over the course of six weeks as part of a project for the station's alternative art gallery, but it's fully functional. The duo made it entirely out of scrap parts headed to the garbage, so it cost the U.S. taxpayers nothing. I'd like to say it's the most interesting vehicle in all of Antarctica, but that would be incorrect.